Even Nancy Pelosi Has Given Up On Democrats in This Year’s Election

You know it’s a bad sign when one of the more accomplished and nuanced of the con artists in the political game has to throw in the towel for this year’s elections. That’s certainly what it sounded like when Nancy Pelosi set her sights on Democratic victories in the elections – the 2016 elections.

Pelosi has a reason to move the goal posts out to 2016. A Washington Post report indicates Republicans have over a 75% chance of reclaiming the Senate in this year’s elections.

All three major election forecasting models saw an uptick in the likelihood of Republicans winning the six seats they need to retake the Senate majority over the past week, movement largely due to the party’s strengthened chances in Alaska, Colorado and Iowa.

The most bullish model for Republicans is Washington Post’s Election Lab, which, as of Monday morning, gives the GOP a 76 percent chance of winning the majority. Leo, the New York Times model, pegs it at 67 percent while FiveThirtyEight shows Republicans with a 60 percent probability. A week ago, Election Lab gave Republicans a 65 percent chance of winning the majority, Leo put it a 55 percent and FiveThirtyEight had it just under 55 percent.

It’s no surprise Pelosi is looking past the 2014 elections knowing full well the Democrats are in for a shellacking.

About the AuthorRusty Weiss

Rusty Weiss is a freelance journalist focusing on the conservative movement and its political agenda. He has been writing conservatively charged articles for several years in the upstate New York area, and his writings have appeared in the Daily Caller, American Thinker, FoxNews.com, Big Government, the Times Union, and the Troy Record. He is also Editor of one of the top conservative blogs of 2012, the Mental Recession.